"Includes a response by Gerald R. Shields. American society is in the early stages of a very dramatic revolution
in the world of work and in its relation to the rest of human life. The foundation
for this revolution lies in the development of a relatively stabilized,
urbanized, industrialized or postindustrial as it is now called middle class
population and culture. Its seeds were the movement of the 1960s,
which questioned traditional views of the family, or work, and of our whole
value system with its strong emphasis on the economic institution. The youth
movement may not have directly revolutionized the ""establishment,"" but it
did raise some questions. The now-adult participants, as well as the youth of
the 1970s, are not as heavily committed to hard work and making money
nor to upward mobility as were the immigrants and the following two (or
more) generations, which adhered to the Protestant work ethic with its puritanical
rigidity and saw obvious rewards in pulling themselves out of the
ghetto and into the ""good life."""
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